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Friday, July 24, 2020

Fact-Checking God

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Yesterday a commenter took issue with our characterization of the purpose of religion, which is to provide man with knowledge of the Absolut...
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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Word Made Fresh

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Back to the questions raised in the previous post: how and why did Christianity triumph over its cut-rate competitors, e.g., pagan polytheis...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

We are All Christians Now

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Especially secular and anti-Christian westerners. We could delve into the reasons why, but this would be the subject of a different post. S...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Meta-Mystery and Mega-Stupidity

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Whatever we can know of this world is always bisected by mystery. And there can be nothing more mysterious than subjectivity itself, which...
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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Live on Radio KBOB

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This post took an abrupt and unanticipated turn, and it's too late to turn back now. Last week I was rifling through Voegelin's m...
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Saturday, July 18, 2020

I Don't Troll on Shabbos

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It's one thing to conserve objects, concepts, institutions, symbols, or doctrines, another thing entirely to conserve the experiences th...
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Thursday, July 16, 2020

Human Being and Being Anti-Human

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We've spoken before of how the cosmos isn't any kind of empirical fact or observation, nor can it ever be. Obviously, no one has eve...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

A Nation of (Vertical) Immigrants

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Horizontal movement would mean little if it weren't bisected by the vertical tension we've been discussing in recent posts. America...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

The Exodus In & Of History

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As human beings meander through prehistory and history... Well, first of all, what can we possibly say of man before taking his history? ...
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Sunday, July 12, 2020

Psycho-Speciation and Red Pilling

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There apparently exists something in history we might call "psycho-speciation." I can't have been the first to suggest the ter...
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Friday, July 10, 2020

Reality: Experience or Concept?

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Now here's an interesting resource that will keep me occupied for the next six months or so: a whole website obsessively devoted to Voe...
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Thursday, July 09, 2020

No Exodus for You!

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We left off with the idea that history is the flow of presence characterized by the intersection of time and eternity, or vertical and horiz...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Cosmic Plumbing and The Flow of Presence

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Why do ideologues cling to their ideology despite its proven failures? For the same reason mental illness persists despite the fact that it ...
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Monday, July 06, 2020

The Road to Hell is Paved by Saintly Ideologues

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Time enough for a short post consisting of MORE STUFF I CAN USE! We ended in the midst of a discussion on the intrinsic impossibility of h...
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Sunday, July 05, 2020

How Not to be an Idiot

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As mentioned in the previous post, this volume of essays by Voegelin is brimming with allusions and references to my Unwritten but unKnown ...
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